Amazon Associate Program

nevetS

Dec 28th 2004, 12:53 am

msaad

Dec 28th 2004, 2:12 am

Don't think so. The guys at Amazon are ULTRA nice... really.. I like working with them a lot.

classifieds

Dec 28th 2004, 2:27 am

I just joined the amazon affiliate program. I'm curious about the application process.

I noted two of my live web sites in my application, and 3 or 4 others that I own the domains for, but haven't gone live with.

Is this going to be a problem with my application?

nevetS,

I was in a similar situation. Amazon approved the application in about 4 days.

Are you planning on using AWS or linking?

-jay

nevetS

Dec 28th 2004, 4:26 am

a little bit of both... linking to start out, but I bought amazon hacks by oreilly so I'm pretty excited about delving into some of the aws stuff. Looking through it looks pretty easy.

TechEvangelist

Dec 28th 2004, 5:16 am

You will find your original application information in Associates Central. If I remember right, Amazon requests that you modify it and resubmit it to add additional sites.

Also, you can request a separate tracking ID for each site. You will then see separate statisitics for each when you log in. Check out the FAQs for more info.

skunker

Dec 28th 2004, 8:42 am

Amazon is not Adsense...keep that in mind. It takes a lot more work and traffic to make decent $$ off Amazon, but that's okay, it should be part of your overall marketing package on your site. Good luck.

Help Desk

Dec 28th 2004, 11:45 am

Are you looking to offer Amazon's full catalog or something tailored specifically for your sites?

nevetS

Dec 28th 2004, 11:49 am

Well - there's a couple of things I want to do...

On my personal web site, list books of interest to me for my friends and family to check out and maybe buy.

On a new web site, list books that are on the topic of weddings, with specific recommendations in a few categories.

On some of my other sites, list a basic ad with a few on topic books.

I'm not looking to make a bjillion dollars off of amazon, but I think they can help to provide some good content and maybe I'll get a few clicks here and there to augment my adsense stuff.

nevetS

Dec 28th 2004, 1:14 pm

Wow. I was approved already. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I already put an ad up on one site.

Help Desk

Dec 30th 2004, 5:24 am

Wow. I was approved already. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I already put an ad up on one site.
Extra bucks are out there to get. If you can build "a better mouse trap" you can get your fair share of it too.

harver

Jan 2nd 2005, 12:59 am

Wow. I was approved already. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I already put an ad up on one site.

Not really, in my opinion. I think they would accept anyone non-warez, non-adult, etc

EdenView

Jan 2nd 2005, 3:01 pm

Not really, in my opinion. I think they would accept anyone non-warez, non-adult, etc

That's been my experience. I had an application that I didn't even put in the site name correctly for amazon.co.uk and I was still approved.

bloodwrath

Jan 3rd 2005, 4:05 pm

I have an amazon account but i have like no clicks
quess thier to busy clicling on my google ads :confused:

EdenView

Jan 3rd 2005, 4:42 pm

I have an amazon account but i have like no clicks
quess thier to busy clicling on my google ads :confused:

Get creative with the way you incorporate them. This isn't perfect, but if you notice on http://www.InvadeCanada.US every time some item is mentioned that could be on Amazon, it links there...

bloodwrath

Jan 3rd 2005, 5:35 pm

ya i could get more creative but my site is mostly to help people
and nice site eh!

nevetS

Jan 3rd 2005, 11:52 pm

ok... that invade canada site is funny.

I had a girlfriend in High School who was canadian - funny enough, she'd been in the States almost her whole life with no plans to return, but her parents refused to give up their citizenship. They always had some concocted story about how us Americans were trying to take over the country or how the NHL refs would refuse to let a canadian team win the Stanley Cup.

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Jan 5th 2005, 9:17 pm

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affil3000

Jan 9th 2005, 4:36 am

Anyone of you guys having any luck getting good profits from amazon? To me the comissions just seem to be very low.

nevetS

Jan 9th 2005, 5:29 am

Haven't done amazon much yet. With adsense I get decent money - not a ton - with 2-300 visitors a day.

skunker

Jan 9th 2005, 9:11 am

affil3000, i run a movie site as you can see and have used Amazon for over 5 years on my sites. I've never made more than $200 a quarter and I've experimented with all sorts of layouts, colors, etc. I've also had thousands upon thousands of traffic on my site and it just does not cut it. Thank god that Adsense came around.

Amazon is only good as part of your overall revenue scheme.

Dominic

Mar 29th 2005, 9:36 am

I targeted a few opportunistic phrases for amazon and turned over almost 2 grand of their stock in the last 40 days. The comish is hardly worth it. I picked something more expensive to have a go with but will probably move on from amazon pretty soon. I'm using search based traffic to a page profiling the product (only using 4 pages - 1 product profile per page).

Is anyone doing well with amazon that is open to sharing some tips?

Help Desk

Mar 29th 2005, 12:50 pm

That's about what I have done as well on my site. This is actually the best quarter that I have had ever. A 5-6% commision will get you that. $2000 is never going to get you much more than $150. If you were going to make a job out of it you would have to sell over $55,000 worth of stuff a month. All that you can do is try to get 30 times more traffic to your site (or have 30 other sites).

Personally I still find I get more money through AdSense.

You have to do something pretty clever to make a great amount of money on these things. DigitalPoint's other ventures are just that kind of clever however, he keeps his trade secrets to himself.

chachi

Mar 29th 2005, 12:54 pm

We made more than that our first quarter and will make nearly a G this quarter, but as you said....it is hardly worth it. I think you have the right idea Dominic, find a more expensive product to work on. Since this is totally comission based, the bigger ticket items are the way to go. Funny thing is, we end up selling mostly random things that people browse on to buy after they click on our product links. To be honest, I think Amazon's system is pretty bad, but you can leverage their content and make a few bucks doing it, so what the hay.

Help Desk

Apr 1st 2005, 2:12 pm

...I think you have the right idea Dominic, find a more expensive product to work on...
You only get higher commisions when you sell more items. Slight catch-22 here.

justtara

Apr 1st 2005, 3:14 pm

I have been a member of Amazon since 99 and my profits keep increasing. I don't come clase to making a living off of Amazon but I am doing ok considering most of my products are under $20. There are some people who do very well with Amazon.

Help Desk

Apr 6th 2005, 7:51 am

Most of these people who make a bundle off of Amazon are probably keeping silent on the matter.

btw I finally got my hosting provider to admit they have tape backups and they will most like charge me a whopping $20 for the restore. $20? Who cares, that's so little to get back my several hundred posts.

mcfox

Apr 6th 2005, 1:17 pm

Amazon aren't much of a revenue generator by comparison to other affiliates. Doesn't mean they aren't worth including as an additional element but as a primary generator, it's a no-go, imho.

Design Agent

Apr 6th 2005, 1:29 pm

Target very carefully and choose reasonably priced products - at around 5% a $10 book is 50c - need to sell alot of books that way.
Ebay affliate could be another worthwhile option. You get money for each sign up even if they don't bid on the product I believe.

sadcox66

Apr 6th 2005, 7:54 pm

Personally I still find I get more money through AdSense.

Could not agree more ...

Nintendo

Apr 26th 2005, 5:49 pm

Is anyone doing well with amazon that is open to sharing some tips?

Use Amazon's Web Services, such as MrRats script. http://www.mrrat.com/aws/

The down side is that there's way more competition now than a few years ago. Right now I'm making about $700 a quarter, while back in Q4 03 I made $7,500.

For scripts, mod_rewrite helps BIG time. Rumor has it that a nice PR can help the store.

girl

Apr 27th 2005, 1:12 am

i have amazon links on almost all my sites and never made a sale!

dirvish

Apr 27th 2005, 1:57 am

I barely make the minimum payout amount ($10) per quarter with Amazon. I make more than 10x that with adsense. Still, it is nice to be able to link to any product and potentially make a buck off of it, and I don't like to have all of my eggs in one basket...so I think Amazon and adsense compliment each other farily well.

Help Desk

Apr 27th 2005, 6:15 am

I have never had any success with individual links. The only way I could see them working is if you have a site where they could help the user a great deal (Like if this site had a link to an SEO book that was written by DigitalPoint).

Dominic

Apr 27th 2005, 9:11 am

I'm having more success targeting more expensive items, but the competition is of course tougher.

Will see how we go this quarter then decide.

EdenView

Apr 30th 2005, 10:53 pm

Had 3 $2,000+ orders last Thursday, spent $20 on that adwords campaign all of April. key = targeting

eves

May 3rd 2005, 8:47 pm

^did the order go through?
cause so far all of my big orders were either never sent or returned

Help Desk

May 5th 2005, 1:37 pm

I'm having more success targeting more expensive items, but the competition is of course tougher.

Will see how we go this quarter then decide.
So er... what was your product? ;)

AfterHim.com

May 5th 2005, 1:51 pm

I've never made any money with adsense...trying to change that here: http://www.introville.com but still no dice.

Design Agent

May 5th 2005, 2:40 pm

I sell amazon products daily. Its about what you are targeting and the traffic you are getting.

Getting 1,000,000 uniques a day for 'car' is probably worse than 100 for 'buy a blue Honda online'

AfterHim.com

May 5th 2005, 3:38 pm

Getting 1,000,000 uniques a day for 'car'

With 1 million uniques for car, I'd have some adsense banners and retire :)

girl

May 13th 2005, 7:03 am

since my last post I sold 4 items...any idea what the minimum payout is?

bloodwrath

May 13th 2005, 7:32 am

since my last post I sold 4 items...any idea what the minimum payout is?

Nice work
i just put my sites up a few weeks ago

If you are being paid by Amazon.com Gift Certificate or direct deposit, we will not send payment until the total amount due is at least $10. If you are being paid by check, we will not send payment until the total amount due is at least $100. Please note that we will also deduct an $8 processing fee from all checks we send you. If your billing address is outside the United States, and direct deposit is, therefore, unavailable to you, we will waive the $8 fee. There is no processing fee for payment via gift certificate or direct deposit.

hope this answers your question

Nintendo

Jun 2nd 2005, 3:18 pm

Any one see signs of Christmas in June?!!

http://www.codeshq.com/webmasters/amazon_crash.gif

Yesterday alone generated 1/5th of my quarter earnings so far!

bloodwrath

Jun 2nd 2005, 3:46 pm

Any one see signs of Christmas in June?!!

http://www.codeshq.com/webmasters/amazon_crash.gif

Yesterday alone generated 1/5th of my quarter earnings so far!

WOW!!!
im hoping for that soon
whats the site?

Infiniterb

Jun 2nd 2005, 4:31 pm

Hmm, that's a 7.7% referral. I'm on ~4% referral with Amazon. How do you get to a higher referral bracket (I admit I haven't read all the amazon info)?

GTech

Jun 2nd 2005, 5:04 pm

Nice earnings Nintendo! I've had some good days, but not quite that good :)

I have some impressive numbers for this quarter so far. Made more in the first month of this quarter than I did all of last quarter. I'm double the earnings at the two month mark and hoping to triple by quarter's end. If these are the slow months, I can't wait for the holiday season :)

Nintendo

Jun 2nd 2005, 6:45 pm

Hmm, that's a 7.7% referral. I'm on ~4% referral with Amazon. How do you get to a higher referral bracket (I admit I haven't read all the amazon info)?

It's mostly 6-8% depending on the item. Marketplace/3rd party items generate higher %s. Do classic and you'll never get more than 5%.

Thanks to the $10 cap being killed, a few items generated some nice earnings yesterday....

Panasonic PV-GS250 3.1 MP 3-CCD MiniDV Camcorder w/10x Optical Zoom $823.54 8.50% $70.00
Canon PowerShot S1 IS 3.2 MP Digital Camera with 10x Image Stabilized Optical Zoom $309.94 6.00% $18.60
Six Flags Banzai Falls Quickset Pool Slide $299.99 8.50% $25.50

About an extra $90 for not having those $10.00 caps.

:::whats the site?

About 30 sites. I got over 1,000,000 spam, er high quality URLs indexed in Google, thanks to MrRats script and my mod_rewrite.

Infiniterb

Jun 2nd 2005, 6:50 pm

Yeah, I was under the classic fee structure. I just now changed to performance.

sji2671

Jun 5th 2005, 10:03 am

I put AWS on the back of one of my sites a couple of weeks ago, just made a nice sale yesterday for one of those sit-on lawn mowers (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001AU2OS/002-2359941-6262458) for $1249 and I have sold $1700 worth so far in the last week, doesn't amount to much but its only been live for 2 weeks and I will watch it with interest over the next month.